From bb3716fd57bae508efaea6d5395644b4b97cfd71 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: hamza zia <ziahamza2007@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 23:29:08 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] updated docs for DirectURL

---
 README.md    |  2 +-
 directurl.md | 60 ++++++++++------------------------------------------
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 50 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 90e6388..fd1a86d 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ Read and edit [configuration.js](configuration.js).
 
 DirectURL
 ---------
-If you are familiar with how webservers work, setup a location that points at the configured download directory, check permissions. Specify a full url: ```http://server:port/```
+This feature allows users to download files that they download from aria2 directly from the webui dashboard. If you are familiar with how webservers work, setup a http server that points at the configured aria2 download directory, check permissions. Then Specify a full url: ```http://server:port/``` in the webui directURL configuration.
 
 If the above is not obvious, keep reading what this is about in [directurl.md](directurl.md)
 
diff --git a/directurl.md b/directurl.md
index 4d6ebe1..7219aed 100644
--- a/directurl.md
+++ b/directurl.md
@@ -7,58 +7,20 @@ Consider the following scenarios:
 
 HTTP to the rescue, already in the browser right?
 
-Simplest way is to use a straightforward Node.js library. In the below complete prescription [send](https://github.com/pillarjs/send) will be used.
-
-Requirements
-------------
-Node.js & NPM
-
-Follow relevant section: [Installing Node.js via package manager](https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Installing-Node.js-via-package-manager)
+Simplest way is to use python to setup a http server.
 
 Steps
 -----
 1. as part of configuring aria2 to make life easier you will have set the global **dir** option to something like **/home/aria2/downloads**
-2. clearly this folder is owned by the user **aria2** 
+2. clearly this folder is owned by the user **aria2**
 3. open a shell session logged in as **aria2**
 4. run ```cd /home/aria2/downloads```
-5. run ```npm install send```
-6. run ```nano send.js``` or vi if that's your thing
-7. paste the content from below **send.js**
-8. save the file making changes where appropriate _(follow the comments)_
-9. run ```node send.js```
-10. webserver is now running on port 3000 and will serve files from the directory specified
-11. to test open up http://serverip:3000 - should get a response from the webserver, 2 lines of text, any browser errors and something hasn't been done properly, check IP/PORT etc
-12. go back to webui-aria2
-13. go to ```Settings > Connection Settings```
-14. scroll down to Direct Download and put ```http://serverip:3000/``` in base URL field _(make sure have the / on the end)_
-15. now that URL has been specified all the files will be converted into clickable links
-16. checkout the ```more info``` on a download and see for yourself
-17. if you click on files that aren't finished downloading ```you're going to have a bad day```
-
-### send.js
-
-```js
-var http = require('http');
-var send = require('send');
-var url = require('url');
-
-var app = http.createServer(function(req, res){
-  // this one allows the service to fail gracefully and give some feedback
-  function error(err) {
-    res.statusCode = err.status || 500;
-    res.end(err.message);
-  }
-
-  // this just makes sure everything is downloaded and not opened in the browser
-  function headers(res, path, stat) {
-    res.setHeader('Content-Disposition', 'attachment');
-  }
-
-  // specify the same directory that aria2 is using to save files
-  // not sure exactly how windows paths should be done, see if 'c:\downloads' works..
-  send(req, url.parse(req.url).pathname, {root: '/home/aria2/downloads'})
-  .on('error', error)
-  .on('headers', headers)
-  .pipe(res);
-}).listen(3000); // change this to .listen(3000,'127.0.0.1') to only respond to localhost requests then access via SSH tunnel or put stunnel in front of it etc
-```
\ No newline at end of file
+5. run ```python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8080```
+6. webserver is now running on port 8080 and will serve files from the directory specified
+7. to test open up http://serverip:8080 - should get a response from the webserver, 2 lines of text, any browser errors and something hasn't been done properly, check IP/PORT etc
+8. go back to webui-aria2
+9. go to ```Settings > Connection Settings```
+10. scroll down to Direct Download and put ```http://serverip:8080/``` in base URL field _(make sure have the / on the end)_
+11. now that URL has been specified all the files will be converted into clickable links
+13. checkout the ```more info``` on a download and see for yourself
+14. if you click on files that aren't finished downloading ```you're going to have a bad day``